Detained brothers not Muslim extremists: mother

Updated
May 03, 2013 09:10:10

The mother of Shayden Thorne, who was arrested 18 months ago in Saudi Arabia and his brother, Junaid Muhammed Thorne, who is in hiding in the country, describes her sons as having an anti-government stance but no interest in Islamic fundamentalism.

It's a fundamental human yearning to be a part of something bigger than one's self, and maybe that's what drove my mate Ash to die, far from home, in a bloody foreign war against Islamic State, writes C August Elliott.